Beyond Training Ain't Performance Fieldbook

Appendix B

Structured On-the-Job Training in Developing Nations

 

Structured on-the-job training (SOJT), adapted to a developing-nation environment, can improve significantly the performance capability of workers, and do so at low cost.

Globalization and competition in products and services have created enormous pressures to increase productivity. Developed nations have risen to the challenge. The same is not true for the developing world where the context of poverty does not permit similar investment in productivity to enable workers to compete internationally. Within developing nations a rich source of capital exists—human capability. The problem is how to organize and exploit this potential source of wealth.

The project reported here examined ...